From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 16 12:57:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lamia.lf.net (lamia.LF.net [212.9.190.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82BA737B407 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 12:57:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by lamia.lf.net (Smail3.2.0.111/lamia.lf.net) via LF.net GmbH Internet Services for hub.freebsd.org id m15taKz-001Sq7C; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 21:57:17 +0200 (CEST) To: "Gavin Mutch" Cc: Subject: Re: Help: Crontab References: <001601c155b9$2e301ba0$0101a8c0@family> Organization: LF.net GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany X-Attribution: viteno X-NCC-RegID: de.lfnet X-URL: http://www.LF.net/ X-Face: 5*nyF1\39:,h6Sk1<}(t1O5x!y5y6@XzBRq5LAYj;Xzb*Ak,]@$HL@>: c&#dUFU=U8O(+/6T0k{j{1~uS@GVk4zurEEb.~MoSbG2pM4z!~/<@.tcd `uD`fNR+TM\@++x@!/Bq)24"xD_kGn,jqwVQa|R'|FFxgWa+$0x]p>KE9E /Xk0$%a*2*K]"zOtbk9v0sNgwb2H"IOaEjCVolb5&yW`o#w2}!w!M{Dn&{K0t From: Norbert Koch Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 21:57:17 +0200 In-Reply-To: <001601c155b9$2e301ba0$0101a8c0@family> ("Gavin Mutch"'s message of "Mon, 15 Oct 2001 21:13:18 +0200") Message-ID: Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) XEmacs/21.5 (asparagus) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Gavin Mutch" writes: Hi! > I was wondering if you could help me, I would please like to know > how to do the following with crontab: cp file1 file2 > > The reason I ask is because crontab forgets file2 and I don't know > how to make it include the space and file2. What do you have in your crontab? I've just checked using something like 55 21 * * * cp $HOME/foo $HOME/bar (cp every day at 21:55 hours) which worked as expected. norbert. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message